Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-03-20
Odds and Ends.

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A few days ago q well known
womaa in New York society ordered
fro n an undertaken coffin in which
TO bury dead parrot.
Mexican pensions will take second
place In the pension Office as none of
the present work can be dropped and
the force Is insufficient.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, reads,
writes, sings and plays all by herself
for three hours-up TO II O'Clock. She
reads no political papers.
Four years ago there was q lad SELL
ing eastern newspapers on the streets
Of Denver. To-day be collects an In.
come from property valued at between
s75, 900 and sl00, 900.
A letter from the capital Of Cores to
the New York Post says that the
Kings winter palace has been newly
finished and furnished with American
furniture, costing $ls,90O
AT Akron, O., 3 boycott having been
enforced against Armour a Col meat
| by the local butchers, Armour tele-
grapbed his Cleveland agent to go TO
Akron and start five or six shops to
sell meat at any price and charge the
loss TO Armour 4 Co.
IL il well known that the popula-
ton OF London Is q migratory one, but
probably few persons were prepared
for the fact that the removals IN Lon
don amount 10 one in ten annually.
Thus the entire population Of London
changes houses every ten years.
A man purchased two old pictures
from q second hand furniture dealer
In Nashville, Tenn, recently for 81
each. After cleaning them up be dis
covered that they were famous pic
lures by Csrle Vornet. He sold them
for $l4 900 to collector who has sent
them to Paris.
A devil fish, with seven arms, each
from nine to thirteen feet in length,
was lately washed ashore at the Ore
gon coast, having perhaps, died Of old
age. Those who examined the body
were OF the opinion that he could have
easily handled three men In shallow
water.
Borneo has come into the field of
tobacco growing competitors. A re-
cent shipment which arrived in Lon
don from that colony, found ready
sale. and was pronounced 10 be equal
in all respects TO the valuable cigar to-
bscco produced in the neighboring Is
land Of Sumstra.
Four weeks ago somebody sitting in
a box at the opera In New York
laughed out loud, attracting the atten-
ton Of everybody in the house. Since
then the incident has been on every
body's tongue, has been written about
In the newspapers, and, herhaps,
preached about in the pulpit, but the
name Of the laugher remains secret.
Germany having made very COM
plete underground telegraph cable sys-
tenn throughout her county, France
is now doing the same thing. All the
great military cables are connected by
cable at q cost Of about $S,0OO,0OO. The
cables are all three or four feet below
the surface, and there is no danger OF
interruption Of communication by
storms.
Alta dinner In London, Gladstone
said he regarded the home rule
movement rs growing rapidly and as
taking precedence Of all other public
questions. He expressed bis inten-
ton Of standing by that question -
long ss his political life continued.
He also believed II 10 be perfectly pos
sible to devise plan for the purchase
Of Irish estates.
Some interesting historic animals
are the two horses which were At
tacbed 10 the late Czar's carriage when
the bomb exploded. and which are
now kept In the imperial stables.
They are badly SCARED, lame, and, OF
course, utterly useless, but they are
given tender care by four grooms. are
clothed in silk and exercised, but
never harpessed.
Ex-Prerident Santos, OF Uruguay, is
visiting Paris In great state, with .
retinue Of sixteen persons. Uruguay
has less than 0,000 inhabitAnts.
When the Emperor and Empress OF
Brazil travelled In Europe last they had
In all only ten retainer. Brasil has
some 1900, 900 inhabitants. When
General Grant went around the world
be had ak companious, and he We